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andmake such other tests as are necessary to ensure that those controls
are functioning correctly.
Note: Civil AviationRegulation 244 (1)(a) requires that immediately before
taking-off on any flight, the pilot in commandof an aircraft shall test
the flight controls on the ground to the full limit of their travel and
make suchother tests as are necessary toensure that those controls
are functioning correctly.
SECURITYOFDOORSANDHATCHES (CAO 20.2)
Immediately before taxi-ing for thepurposeof takingoff on any flight, thepilot
in command shall ensure that all doors, escape hatches and loading hatches
are properly secured.
PRECAUTIONSBEFORESOLOFLIGHT INAIRCRAFTFITTEDWITHDUAL
CONTROLS (CAO20.2)
Thepilot in commandof an aircraft fittedwith dual controls, which is to
be flown solo, shall ensure that safety harness and any other articles or
equipmentwhichmay foul the controls are safely secured; if the second
control column is readily detachable, it shall be removed.
FUELSYSTEM INSPECTION (CAO 20.2)
Theoperator andpilot in command shall ensure that the following inspections
and tests for thepresenceofwater in the fuel systemof the aircraft aremade:
• either:
- if the aircraftmanufacturer’s data specifies themanner inwhich
inspections and tests for the presence ofwater in the aircraft’s
fuel system are to bemade and the data has been approved under
regulation 42M as part of the aircraft’s system ofmaintenance, an
inspection and test in accordancewith the approved data; or
- in any other case, before the start of each day’s flying, and after each
refuelling,with the aircraft standingon a reasonably level surface, drain
a small quantity of fuel from each fuel tank into a clear transparent
container and check by an approvedmethod for thepresence of
water; and
2 – saf e t y precaut i ons
pre-flight